On 98-03-19, Linda Cullen <lcullen[_at_]sipress.si.edu> wrote:
>
> The copyright to those letters remains with the writers (or their
> heirs), not the recipient, correct? Thanks.
You are correct. There's a significant difference between "ownership of a copy" and "copyright owership." To quote the Copyright Permission & Libel Handbook (John Wiley & Sons), "Copyright makes an important distinction between ownership of a particular copy of a work and ownership of the copyright interest embodied in that work." By receiving a letter, or any other copyrighted work, you do not obtain any rights in that work's copyright. In short, copyright in a letter remains with the author of the letter.
Lloyd Jassin
<copylaw[_at_]aol.com>
Received on Fri Mar 19 1999 - 15:54:45 GMT
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